Russia will reduce the cost of gas it supplies to Turkey by 6% beginning next year, President Vladimir Putin has said.
Turkish daily ‘Zaman’ reports that Turkey would be buying an additional 3 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia. Last year, 13.7 bcm of gas was pumped to Turkey via Blue Stream.
Addressing a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Putin also said that if the EU opposed the South Stream gas pipeline project, Russia would abandon it. He said that the European Commission was reluctant to give the go-ahead to the project to supply southern Europe …read more
Source: LGC News
